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He/him Nerd Ex-care kid. State school oik Legal 500 Barrister (chambers in Manchester and London) Politics snarker Cat dad 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇫🇷 Music maker Podcaster/Writer Joined October 2023r 1st UK Law podcaster Unexpected Paul Heaton impersonator centralchambers.co.uk
This infographic was produced in order of MP’s money earned from other jobs.
Ooh look who’s front and centre, it’s “man of the people” Nigel Mirage.
Not often seen in his constituency but topping the charts of additional earnings.
Taylor probably doesn't exist.
Pecksniff.
Surely that's a fake name.
Source: BBC
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This is a smart move.
Been waiting to see who would do it.
Love or hate AI, it's part of life now and we do not want to be yet another customer with nothing domestic.
Le Mistral and other UK/EU first. But anthropic took a stand and we should acknowledge that.
Well. This is an interesting thing from a council that gave control to Reform UK just under a year ago.
Videos shared online falsely claim Keir Starmer banned New York mayor Zohran Mamdani from the UK, after Mr Mamdani supposedly said the UK had “lost its moral compass” at an event they both attended.
But no such event happened, and he hasn’t been banned.
Farage is off to the US to dine with a pedo. Reform supporters must love that. I mean who champions a man like this. The US justice department has just released more of the Epstein files. Maybe he’s hoping from e a picture. Meanwhile:
Get off Facebook and insta. You are choosing to support them.
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Deciding as consumers to give this much power and money to one nation is why they are free to bomb anywhere and interfere in other countries' politics.
Choose your products and services better.
Stop buying from Amazon and Apple. Limit the paid services from Google and MS.
Senator Mullin on January 6th
Like all good criminals and grifters, he's 'found God' as the net starts to close.
Just shows how much contempt Reform has for their own supporters. This is a policy that helps the kids of the wealthy educated liberal elites they claim to despise. And would harm the types of constituency they do well in.
Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
Always best to wait until you’ve started a war before allowing the DoJ to realise it “made a mistake” when not releasing info from the Espstein files. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
🔵Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to increase defence spending with the £3.2 billion that she says will be gained from restoring the two-child benefit cap
Here’s the jackass replacing Kristi Noem cowering like a bootlicker on Jan 6. Days later he said Jan 6 was a peaceful protest. #cuckMullins
I bloody loved bombjack as a kid. ST version.
The Entire Global Economy in 2026 in One Chart (GDP, PPP) share.google/iHbhw56sWizl...
An interesting visualisation that will surprise Americans and Brits alike.
Murton (Durham) Council By-Election Result:
🌹 LAB: 50.6% (+17.6)
➡️ RFM: 39.6% (-4.5)
🌍 GRN: 4.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 3.1% (-2.0)
🔶 LDM: 1.9% (-2.3)
No Ind (-13.6) as previous.
Labour GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
This month's hackpressions I'd like to ban for overuse or offensive use as a euphemism:
- to your point
- immigration 'crackdown' (because it isn't)
- there's a world in which...
- Churchill
- 'trans debate' (because people are not a debate)
- cringe
- turned around and said... (No. He didn't.)
Up to 100% of non-Reform voters want him deported, too.
Fun Fact - 80% of Reform voters want Reform UK politician Zahawi to be deported.
Oligarchs and Christian fundamentalists are a traditional pairing.
Adding populists and common or garden bigots? That's how you get the numbers.
What a total shitshow for humanity.
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Finally!
A clean sweep!
Never heard of any of them!
Shots!
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This is why the ONLY way to affect the USA is to choose not set aside USA products and services, not sit there and bitch about Trump on Facebook using your iPhone, whilst awaiting your Amazon delivery.
Actively spend with non-US companies when possible.
